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The Silence of Animals by John Gray – reviewhttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/15/silence-animals-john-gray-review
John Banville hails a modern prophet who insists that the world is without meaning<p>Every couple of years or so John Gray presents a new book in which he imparts to us many wise things we seem incapable of heeding. He is like an anchorite who at irregular intervals comes in from the desert to stand in the market square holding aloft a banner on which is writ in stark letters THE END OF THE WORLD IS NOT NIGH. He bides there for a time, monitory, silent, ignored by all but the few, then trudges away again to his solitary pillar, shaking the dust of the city from his heels.</p><p>Gray, who among other eminences has occupied the professorships of Politics at Oxford and of European Thought at the LSE, is now a full-time writer, philosopher and public intellectual. His books, including <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/businessandfinance/9781847081322/false-dawn-the-delusions-of-global-capitalism" title=""><em>False&nbsp;Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism</em></a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/07/highereducation.news2" title=""><em>Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals</em></a>, and a selection of his writings, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/29/john-gray-philosophy-politics-globalisation" title=""><em>Gray's Anatomy</em></a>, are at once dire execrations of humanity's numerous idiocies and lyrical celebrations of the joys of his own particular brand of quietism.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/15/silence-animals-john-gray-review">Continue reading...</a>John GrayBooksCultureFri, 15 Feb 2013 10:20:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/15/silence-animals-john-gray-reviewEamonn McCabe/GuardianJohn Gray: ‘blends lyricism with wisdom, humour with admonition, nay-saying with affirmation’ Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the GuardianEamonn McCabe/GuardianJohn Gray: ‘blends lyricism with wisdom, humour with admonition, nay-saying with affirmation’ Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the GuardianJohn Banville2013-02-15T10:20:00Z